Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 7.1.1, English translation, including commentaries such as the Upaskara of Shankara Mishra, the Vivriti of Jayanarayana-Tarkapanchanana and the Bhashya of Chandrakanta. The Vaisheshika Sutras teaches the science freedom (moksha-shastra) and the various aspects of the soul (eg., it's nature, suffering and rebirth under the law of karma). This is sutra 1 (‘allusion to sutra 1.1.6’) contained in Chapter 1—Of Colour, Taste, Smell, and Touch, and Magnitude—of Book VII (of the examination of attributes and of combination).
Sūtra 7.1.1 (Allusion to Sūtra 1.1.6)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 7.1.1:
उक्ता गुणाः ॥ ७.१.१ ॥
uktā guṇāḥ || 7.1.1 ||
uktāḥ—stated, mentioned, enumerated; guṇāḥ—attributes.
1. Attributes (have been) mentioned (above).
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
Having examined dharma and adharma, as the root causes of Saṃsāra or transmigration, as the efficient causes of all that has a production, as the means of bhoga or worldly experience, and as uniformly attaching to each individual soul, from their origin, as well as the adṛṣṭa of others as conducive to fruits to be experienced by those others, the author now calls back to the mind of the disciples the enumeration and definition of Attributes with the intention of examining these Attributes.
[Read sūtra 7.1.1 above]
The meaning is that Attributes have been enumerated and defined. Of these colour, etc., seventeen in all, have been verbally stated, and seven have been brought forward by the word ca, ‘and’. Accordingly all the twenty-four Attributes have been mentioned. Now, Attribute-ness connotes possession of the ‘class’ directly pervaded by existence appearing in eternals present in the eternals, or possession of the ‘class’ directly pervaded by existence appearing in eternals which do not appear in combinative causes, or possession of the ‘class’ directly pervaded by existence appearing in eternals appearing in non-combinative causes, or possession of the ‘class’ not appearing in action which does not co-exist in the same substratum with the effect.—1.